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Yearly Post2008-05-29 08:53:59  
Wow, my yearly post. Just look at last years and my feelings are the same.

Family is important.
posted by jhetrick

Ho ho ho!2007-07-13 07:06:24  
Nothing but a lot of nothing.

Fits into my worldview of the intarweb. Nobody cares about 100,000,000 voices spewing their angst.

I just thought I should put something out here to keep it fresh.

Kinda like sniffing the bread once a year to make sure you should still plan on that cheese sammich.
posted by jhetrick

Classes soon2006-08-18 10:21:28  
Hmm. Classes start soon. The influx of questions is just beginning.

Playing with radio bits. Brewing some winter brews (2 Belgians on the deck).

Need to brew a stout this weekend. mmmmm
posted by jhetrick

Woo!2006-06-12 20:51:59  
Still not a lot going on.

Having some homebrew, enjoying it.

Really happy with new job. Fiddling with win isn't nearly as evil as I thought. Same stuff, nothing more, nothing less.

The only real change is "decision by majority" as I'm used to being a one-man show... I find it nice, though, because I'm used to making lots of decisions on my own, with no real outside thoughts on what I'm about to do. I generally do my homework, but, having some outside yay or nay is usually helpful in trying to sort out things you may not have thought of. Everybody has things they need a few other ideas on.

Other than that.... Still learning, still havin fun.
posted by jhetrick

Action2006-05-14 14:13:03  
Wow, well nothing much going on!

New job. Relaxation. Have been called in a couple times to help with oldjob, but nothing major. I think things are humming along nicely there. Always good to see a smoothish transition.

Newjob front is quite nice. Bit of a change in what I support, and how I support it, but, the same sorts of challenges and a few different resources to tap to try and overcome them.

Brewing again. Twas a long dark winter without much flame under the kettle. Have about 30 gallons fermenting, and I just kegged a couple of brews.

Thats it for now.
posted by jhetrick

Hrm2005-12-22 08:41:36  
I live.

Holiday season is upon us. You'd think that as often as I spew here, I could be dead. This is untrue!

Not much has changed recently. Adjustements to the VOIP system have been made, longer distance communcations with lost friends via SIP have been initiated.

Some fiddling with toys like this have begun:
site:http://www.byonics.com
posted by jhetrick

Beer and powertools2005-09-28 08:04:53  
Gotta love a mix made in heaven.

Brother came up and we went to the IC Brewfest and drank our fill. Helps that the Millstream guys took us to all the good tables and got us free beer..

Woke up, slightly dulled by drink, the next morning and went to lumber yard and got some shelving materials!

We spent the morning building shelves in my furnace room so that we could move all the computer crap out of the basement family room and start using it as a family room.

The good side to this is that I actually have a *better* area for fiddling with boxen. It's out of sight, near net, and more organized.
posted by jhetrick

No news is good news..right?2005-09-13 08:36:12  
So, thats what you think eh?

Actually. I've been too busy avoiding the electronic world to do anything "earthshattering". Computers suck! Don't ever forget it!

The innnerweb is a fad!

posted by jhetrick

Old Bastard2005-07-28 14:32:23  
      So, 1 week ago, I turned 30. Big hairy ass deal :) Come see me when I turn 40, I've been having a mid-life crisis since I was 25.

To celebrate my 3rd decade of life, I brewed. I brewed an awesome RyePA cooked up by Denny Conn (google it..if you give a shit).

All was good.
posted by jhetrick

Training2005-07-05 15:12:49  
So,
Just returned from 1 week of training on the Metaswitch.

I must say, they don't expect a lot of the folks they train.

One of my consistent beefs with the tech industry is that the don't like to train the people they sell too more than would be profitable for them (well..duh).

We basically learned about the EMS that manages the switch. My counterpart and I are smarter than that, though, so it shouldn't be a problem.

The box, itself, isn't so bad. It's another thing to bring pain. But, the bonus is, it is the first piece of equipment at this job that has *ever* had a support contract. And I mean a suck your cock support contract.

When I worked for $BORG[-1] *everything* was on SYCS. *Everything*. That led to mind numbing support calls and watching some SE or CSE that had no fucking clue fumble around. But, it wasn't *your* problem. All you had to do is stay around and babysit the SE. Nothing more.

We'll see. I'm not overjoyed about being pushed into the developer role in $BORG. I still have a fondness for learning new shit, and maintaining new shit..
posted by jhetrick

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